How to pay homage to Chhatrapati Shivaji?

Unlike the moronic ways I’ve writ­ten about many times ear­lier, this group of peo­ple show us the real way.

“For two months they stayed away from home, quit jobs and risked their lives and limbs climb­ing to dizzy­ing heights and faced nature’s chal­lenges. For, pro­pelling these 20 youth, was their devo­tion to Chha­tra­p­ati Shiv­aji Maharaj. Their mis­sion: To pho­to­graph and doc­u­ment over 200 of his forts in the State.” For what, you ask?

The Goal

The Largest Web Based Dig­i­tal Inter­ac­tive Ency­clo­pe­dia
on the life and times of Chha­tra­p­ati Shiv­aji Maharaj

  • 20,000 plus pages of his­tor­i­cal information
  • 1,85,000 plus pho­tographs of 280 forts & places
  • Satel­lite coor­di­nated GPS mon­i­tored maps of all forts
  • Inter­ac­tive visual tours of forts
  • Pic­to­r­ial biog­ra­phy of Maharaj with 100 exclu­sive sto­ries 2,500 colour paint­ings on his life & times
  • The site will cover a span of 127 years of Maratha History

The Team

  • 128 pro­fes­sion­als from dif­fer­ent faculties

Limca Records

  • Biggest web­site ever devel­oped on an individual
  • Biggest trekking expe­di­tion ever organised

Visit their site for updates on their impres­sive progress so far.

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July 3, 2007 – 2:57 PM | By Mahendra | Posted in India, Travel, culture, marathi, media, politics | Comments (7)

7 Comments

  • The Great Indian Mutiny » The Archive » This is how you show the love, y’all wrote:
    Jul 3, 2007 at 4:03 PM

    […] a his­tor­i­cal char­ac­ter? Appar­ently, some pas­sion­ate peo­ple from Maha­rash­tra seem to think that this is the right way, set­ting up India’s largest web based dig­i­tal inter­ac­tive ency­clopae­dia on […]

  • nitinrohidas wrote:
    Jul 4, 2007 at 5:16 PM

    cool work…

  • Benoy Sebastian wrote:
    Jul 31, 2007 at 12:24 PM

    Greet­ings,

    I am great admirer of Shri Chha­tra­p­ati Shiv­aji Maharaj. Since child­hood I have been read­ing a lot about my favourite king. I don’t have the resources nor the finances to visit my child­hood dream fort– Raigad.
    Is the site going to put all the pho­tos on the net for die-hard fans like me?
    It would be great if you could do it.
    Keep up the good work. Kudos to the team.

    Regards,
    Benoy Sebas­t­ian
    Copy Desk
    NextGen Pub­li­ca­tions
    Mumbai.

  • mahendrap wrote:
    Jul 31, 2007 at 1:03 PM

    Benoy: Raigad is sit­u­ated not far away from Mum­bai! Any­ways, yes, the site is going to put not just pho­tos, but inter­ac­tive tours of all the forts on the net, for free!

  • ajay kumar allam wrote:
    Sep 3, 2007 at 7:47 AM

    the great war­rior who fought for our hindu community

  • Swapnil wrote:
    Mar 31, 2008 at 2:26 PM

    Hi I am been very much wait­ing for the site from the day I read in news paper about the plan­ning to make it. And was vis­it­ing the web­site also But a week before I am not get­ting any infor­ma­tion nor the site is open­ing try the url above Is the web­site com­pleted.
    or the Url changed or may be wait­ing for the grand pre­mier of it
    thanks & regards
    Swapnil

  • mahendrap wrote:
    Apr 2, 2008 at 10:16 PM

    Dear Swap­nil, I do not know what has hap­pened to this site and this effort.

    When­ever I get any update, I shall let every­one know.

    Thanks,
    Mahendra.